from the NYT
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this week, vowed on Thursday to bring democracy to her country and end the government of President Nicolás Maduro as she re-emerged on the global stage after more than a year in hiding.
Ms. Machado held a news conference in Oslo alongside Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway as the Trump administration dramatically increased its pressure on Mr. Maduro. On Wednesday, the United States seized a Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of the South American country.
Ms. Machado has been a steadfast supporter of President Trump’s pressure campaign against Mr. Maduro, whom the Trump administration has accused of flooding the United States with drugs and criminals.
On Thursday, Ms. Machado dodged a reporter’s question about her views on the threat of U.S. military action in Venezuela. But she repeated the Trump administration’s talking points on Mr. Maduro’s government, comparing him to a criminal mastermind engaged in a vast array of illegal activities in partnership with America’s adversaries.
“Venezuela has already been invaded,” she said. “We have the Russian agents, we have the Iranian agents, we have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, operating freely in accordance with the regime. We have the Colombian guerrilla, the drug cartels.”...
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